Explanatory Notes

Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

2025 asp 13

6 November 2025

Crown Application

Part 6 - Other Housing Matters

Mobile homes

Section 62 - Meaning of “protected site”

172.This section modifies the meaning of “protected site” in section 5(1) of the 1983 Act so that it has the same meaning as in Part 1 of the Caravans Sites Act 1968. Accordingly, a protected site is any land in respect of which a site licence is required under the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 (or would be if there were no exemption for local authority sites). But it does not include land in respect of which the relevant planning permission or site licence—